15 August—12 September | Weekdays, 9:30am—1:30pm | Clara Street Gallery, 1A Clara St Erskineville
   
Virginia Lloyd-Tait's incredible 30-year retrospective exhibition of sculptures opened at Clara Street Gallery earlier this month. Fellow sculptor and TBSSS student Martin Williams reviews her exhibition, which is showing until 12 September:

"An odyssey of blood, sweat, and tears. When you look at her work you gain the sense of hard work she has applied together with her eyes, hands, and body, an intense labouring that has achieved a result with which Virginia can be eventually satisfied. In this powerful exhibition we are surrounded by women, works beautifully curated by Elena Murgia, where the essence lies in an exploration of the figure.

"It’s easy to see an important inspiration has been her family, where more emotion and tears take over. A bust of her mother, who died early, and one of her sister, upon whom in childhood, she came to depend. Both stand alongside her beloved husband Roger, the latter portrayed in Carrara marble. Then another emotion—a recent striking figure in marble of her daughter in pregnancy, and sitting by, a tiny baby, the head of her beautiful grandson.

"In these works we experience a particularly human exploration of emotion that unfolds before us, an intimacy that she makes accessible to her audience. And Virginia, blood, sweat, and tears included, is having a lot of fun doing it."